lure choice consideration

[SenkoSam]

Here are a few tested creations that caught many fish of different species with the possible reasons they did so well.
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Note the four flat sides of the grub. The reason it has caught so many fish IMO is in part because of the flat sided design that allows a different kind of wiggle with rod tip twitches than that of a full round grub. Add to that the medium soft plastic used to make it. (Salt water plastic though okay, would not have allowed the same action when rigged under a float bobbing on slightly wind blown water.)

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I have no idea why I even fished this grub last fall or when it was first made, but it turned out to be a versatile lure that's caught hundreds of fish! Why does it work so well?
Possibly the shape - a blunt non-action tail (IE curl or shad tail). What this allows (plus the use of soft plastic), is a waddle on the slowest retrieves. This lure action using a really slow retrieve provokes the strike- from 2 lb bass to the smallest panfish!

Side by side comparison fishing of the above lures with others in the grub category, prove that lure design matters in the numbers of fish caught when using extremely slow presentations. Slow retrieves that keep lures near a fish longer have caught far more fish under tough conditions than those I had to reel faster to get the tail to move.

Matching is fine, but at the end of the day it won't result in number of fish in of itself or this seven pound catfish!!!

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